Found 3 hits - Term: crotchety, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
crotchety \crotch"ety\ kr?ch"?t-?, a.
given to crotchets; subject to whims; as, a crotchety man.
1913 webster
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
crotchety
adj : having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous
and venomous-tongued old lady"- dorothy sayers syn: cantankerous,
ornery
see also:
cantankerous ornery
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
89 moby thesaurus words for "crotchety":
abnormal, anomalous, antagonistic, antipathetic, arbitrary,
bearish, breakaway, cankered, capricious, clashing, conflicting,
contradicting, contradictory, counteractant, counteracting,
counteractive, countervailing, counterworking, crank, crankish,
cranky, cross-grained, deviant, deviative, different, dissident,
divergent, dotty, eccentric, erratic, exceptional, fanciful,
fantasied, fantastic, fey, flaky, freakish, funny, harebrained,
hostile, humorsome, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, inimical, irregular,
kinky, kooky, maggoty, moody, motiveless, nonconformist, notional,
nutty, odd, oddball, opposing, oppositional, oppugnant, ornery,
peculiar, perverse, petulant, queer, quirky, reactionary,
recalcitrant, renitent, repugnant, resistant, revolutionary,
screwball, screwy, singular, strange, temperamental, twisted,
unconventional, unnatural, unreasonable, unrestrained, vagarious,
vagrant, vinegarish, vinegary, wacky, wanton, waspish, wayward,
whimsical
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